Re: Language Detection for Analysis?

2009-08-09 Thread Lucas F. A. Teixeira
Google Translate just released (last week) its language API with translation and LANGUAGE DETECTION. :) It's very simple to use, and you can query it with some text to define witch language is it. Here is a simple example using groovy, but all you need is the url to query: http://groovyconsole.ap

Re: score from spans

2009-08-09 Thread Eran Sevi
Thanks for the answer. I tried to further understand the weight and score mechanism when running a span query search. I noticed that indeed the SpanScorer and SpanWeight are being called and some score is returned but it seems to me that these basic implementations are more appropriate for the bas

Re: Handling synonyms using Lucene

2009-08-09 Thread mitu2009
Just wanted to add this my original question: FYI, The synonyms in my application are totally custom and not from English dictionary...ie. "Global Leader in Finance" could also mean "Top Investment Bank" or "Fortune 500 Finance company" etc etc. Anshum-2 wrote: > > Hi Mitu, > Though your approa